Tell Me What It's Like
Tell Me What It's Like
Podcast Description
What’s it like to set a world record? To invent a new product? To survive an extremely rare illness?
On Tell Me What It’s Like, host Stacy Raine sits down with people who’ve lived through powerful and uncommon experiences. Each conversation explores how it happened, why it matters, and what it truly felt like to live through it.
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The podcast explores a range of deep and compelling topics, including setting world records, innovative product development, overcoming rare illnesses, and social activism. Specific episodes feature stories like Becca Pizzi's journey of running seven marathons on seven continents, Saundra Pelletier's fight to bring a new birth control to market, and Leigh Dzvonick's experience with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, reflecting themes of resilience, creativity, and personal empowerment.
What’s it like to be a tween therapist? To switch careers and begin photographing toys? To have Guillain-Barré? To be the first female chess grandmaster?
Tell Me What It’s Like is a podcast about uncommon experiences and what they teach us about the world. Host Stacy Raine talks with people who have spent years in roles and life situations most of us don’t experience to understand what it’s actually like, what they’ve seen over time, and what those experiences reveal.
Charles Grimes has spent nearly 30 years as a business psychologist, helping leaders understand themselves so they could lead others well. But he’s also been trying to understand himself, with therapy, courses, and numerous self-assessment tools. But it wasn’t until he was 65 — when a friend made a casual, throwaway comment — that the missing piece finally clicked into place. He had Asperger’s. The diagnosis didn’t feel like bad news. It felt like freedom.
“It’s okay to be Charles. And that’s something which I hadn’t felt. And I’m 65. This is very late in life to suddenly feel it’s okay to be me.”
Hear Charles talk about:
- What his friend said that set the whole thing in motion and why he didn’t dismiss it
- What “masking” is, and the exhausting work of hiding in plain sight for decades
- The conductor who walked into rehearsal and transformed a mediocre choir without saying a word – and what this has to do with leadership
- What fell into place when he looked back at his life through the new lens of his diagnosis
- Learning about love and connection later in life — and why he thinks it’s never too late
Mentioned in this episode:
- A Question of Leadership by Charles Grimes
- The National Autistic Society — where Charles went for his formal assessment
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